Originally Posted by fireman0174
I told myself that I would stop responding to your senseless postings, but I want to point out to the forum users why people should avoid your drivel.
Your statement "Airline pilots are not supposed to think for themselves but instead are taught to refer to manuals and decision trees for guidance" is an example of what I'm taliking about.
Being a Captain is not about flying the airplane, but rather about exercising good judgement and knowing when to dig in your heels when it's needed.
Here's an example of what happens when pilots "... take an assembly line approach to flying that reduces the actual skill and ability down to near rote memorization.".
http://www.airlineempires.net/index....d=80&Itemid=79
Being a captain means living in paranoia of every action and decision to insure that they are operating within the confines of the manual or at least have plausible deniability. The FO does the same except in regards to the captain.
Wasn't the cause of that Air Florida crash because the crew failed to follow the check list and proper procedures? Besides if we didn't have such a system of repetition and rote memorization then we would have a crash or two a month. In the airlines thinking is dangerous.
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